Does anyone get a perfect picture on their local ABC station? I get pixelation every 10 seconds, especially noticeable on fast moving sports. It isn't a Channels issue because it also happens when I log into ABC, and watch directly. It is the local Tampa Florida station. FOX , CBS, and NBC all work perfect. Thanks in advance.
Yup. It has been this way for over a year. I get so irate when watching a football game and looks like garbage. It is totally something they are doing on their end. It looks much better over TVE vs Over the Air. Wish the would fix it. Or do something that makes it look cleaner.
You have that backwards but I know what you mean...
Nope I don't have it backwards. My over the air for ABC is horrible here. I even sent an e-mail to them and the guy said he was frustrated with the vendors as they are pointing their figures at each other. All the other channels the Over the Air is better. Just not ABC.
Unfortunately it seems like ABC has few to no standards for how local stations provide their TVE stream. My local station always has excellent OTA quality but used to provide a TVE stream at 1080p/30fps that looked absolutely horrid... really low bitrate and artifacts all over the place. As of last month it's now 720p/60fps with much higher bitrate and has been great ever since.
IIRC, CBS has had fantastic quality since they launched CBS All Access (now known as Paramount+) at 1080p/60fps and 10+ Mbps bitrate. NBC used to have a low bitrate stream for all affiliates as well until a few months ago, as discussed here.
What station is it?
WTAE in Pittsburgh. It's not ABC owned and operated but their owner, Hearst, is pretty cozy with ABC/Disney since they are minority owners of ESPN.
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Some of my TVE locals that had worked previously are not (xfinity) namely ABC WPVI and FOX WTXF (both are in Philly). Both say “context deadline exceeded, and when I try to rescan them manually is spins for a long time and doesn’t seem to ever finish successfully. I just downloaded and updated to the latest prerelease 2022.01.04.2130
They (locals) won't get fixed by rescanning them.
Do the secure HTTPS method.
Disable the experimental locals in the DVR web UI.
Connect to your Channels DVR server using secure HTTPS. https://
Enable the experimental locals in the DVR web UI.
Your browser may ask for permission to enable location service, let it.
You should see a spinner as it rescans them.
Many posts on the forum about this, including in this topic
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I did the secure HTTPS method but get a not secure warning
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If you used the IP address of your server or a .local name a browser will warn you the certificate doesn't match the hostname, but should let you override the warning and continue.
For instance using Firefox, once I click Advanced I can then choose to continue.
Ug I did this and it worked…. But the server is in Philly and I did it remotely from Boston, and now the locals are Boston locals. Any way to redo this and have it be in philly? Do I need to call a family member and ask them to do it? The server is a synology ds220+.
Since the networks geo-locate the browser you used, you would need to do it from a browser preferably on your server or on the same network as your server.
With the new prerelease build, the server will now error out if it can't get geolocation information from the browser, and show a link that should help users try it again via https
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I’m getting a “404 not found” error.
Jk….I’m not. just wanted this to be the 404th post in the thread.
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I am in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, and I can't get my local NBC affiliate (KARE) to appear in TV Everywhere. My provider is YouTube TV, and I can successfully log in and stream on nbc.com/live. ABC, Fox, and CBS all get scanned. Is there a location-based reason I am not seeing NBC, or is something else going on?
Try again with latest prerelease, then submit diagnostics and email support
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PBS Channels 30 (WABE) in Atlanta has gone live on DirecTV Stream. I tried to rescan channels, but it did not show up.
PBS networks are no longer supported; their web streams use DRM.
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